More than six months have passed since the “second Karabakh war”, as it is now called, came to an abrupt end last year with Armenia all but defeated. The ceasefire hastily signed on November 9 – after Azerbaijan took the historically significant fortress town of Shushi/Shusha in the mostly Armenian-inhabited enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh – may have brought active hostilities to an end, but left many questions unanswered.
For the first time since the earliest days of the conflict, Russian forces were introduced into those parts of the region still under ethnic Armenian control – marked orange on the map below – to guard the peace between the two sides. Under the terms of the agreement, Armenian forces also withdrew from territories adjacent to parts of the contested region – the dark green coloured areas on the map. The blue areas of the map show the territories that were recaptured by Azerbaijan.
In addition, the Combat Brotherhood-2021 operational and strategic drills that will run in the autumn of this year will embrace five joint special exercises that will cover the Central Asian region
Belarusian MP describes CSTO as guarantor of international, regional security
Photo courtesy of the Council of the Republic
MINSK, 25 May (BelTA) – Chairman of the International Affairs and National Security Commission of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Sergei Rachkov took part in a session of the coordinating conference of heads of defense and security committees (commissions) of the parliaments of the CSTO member states under the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow, BelTA learned from the upper house of the Belarusian Parliament.
The meeting was led by Vladimir Shamanov, Chairman of the Committee on Defense of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly. Eight issues were considered during the meeting. The MPs heard the report of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev on countering the challenges and threats to collective security, the state and prospects of military cooperation within the framework of the Collective
Armenian Foreign Ministry slams border incident as violation of international law
Earlier, the Defense Ministry of Armenia reported that an Armenian serviceman was fatally wounded in a shootout on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border
YEREVAN, May 25. /TASS/. The Foreign Ministry of Armenia on Tuesday described the incident on the border with Azerbaijan, in which an Armenian serviceman was killed, as a breach of international law and an encroachment on its territory. On May 25, Armenian serviceman, junior sergeant Gevorg Khurshudyan was fatally wounded by the fire of the armed units of Azerbaijan in the direction of the Upper Shorzha of Gegharkunik region of the Republic of Armenia, the embassy said in a statement.
Armenian-Azerbaijani border must be delimited urgently â CSTO The deployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent and the ongoing negotiation process strengthen the perspective of a long-term peace, he said
MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. The escalation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border demands urgent resolution of the issue of demarcation and delimitation of borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Collective Security Treaty Organization press service said Tuesday, citing CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov. The recently emerged escalation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border requires taking urgent measures, first and foremost of political and diplomatic nature, as well as resolution of issues on delimitation and demarcation of border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Semerikov said at the meeting of the Coordination Council of national security and defense committees’ chairmen.